Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] mac80211_hwsim: indicate support for 60GHz channels | From | Johannes Berg <> | Date | Wed, 14 Apr 2021 17:09:53 +0200 |
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On Wed, 2021-04-14 at 12:06 -0300, Ramon Fontes wrote: > > Advertise 60GHz channels to mac80211. > Oh.. That was a mistake. Sorry for that. > > Anyway, can we indicate 60GHz support even though it is not being > supported by mac80211 yet? > No, that makes no sense. DMG operation is significantly different from non-DMG operation, even the A-MSDU format for example (an abbreviated format called "short A-MSDU" is used in DMG). Similarly beacons, etc., all kinds of operations are significantly different.
Adding 60 GHz channels to hwsim would be essentially operating as non- DMG yet on a DMG channel, which makes no sense.
I don't think anyone's planning to add DMG support to mac80211, and in the absence of a real driver requiring that it wouldn't make sense anyway. Quite possibly, it simply doesn't make sense period, because DMG operation is sufficiently different.
johannes
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